Motor driving mechanism.



No. s70,|79.

Patented Mar; I9, I901. n. J. LAWSON.

MOTOR DRIVING MECHANISM.

(Apphcatwn filed Nov. 7, 1900.) (Ho Mum.)

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Patented Mar. I9, I90l.

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Q/vihmamz rf fg iJNiTE* S ATE-s HENRY JOHN LAWSON,

"ATE-NT OFFICE.

or LONDON, ENGLAND.

Moron DRIVING MECHANISM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters salien No. 670,179, dated March 19,1901;-

Application filed November 7, 1900., Serial No. 35,746. (No mode! new and useful Improvements in Motor Driv ing ltlechanisnnof which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to producea new and advantageous arrangement of an .actuating-motor with a propelling-wheel otja motor-vehicle; and my invention will be fully understood upon reference to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which j Figure 1. is a perspective view of motor.

invention is embodied.

modified arrangements of the driving-motor in connection with the propellin -wheel,

The principal feature of my invention consists in arranging the driving-motor tai'igentially and peripherally to the propelling wheel and to have a suitable driving connection extending from said motor at that point to the hub of the propelling-wheel.

According to the method employed in big. 1, a propelling-wheel 1 is mounted in a steering-t'ork 2, formed with supporting-arms 3 and bracingarms 4, and has two motors 5 mounted at opposite ends of the horizontal diameter of the wheel 1 in a tangential or peripheral relation, driving relation between saidmotors of the wheel being established through the medium of radial shafts 6, ro-

tated through gears 7 from the motors and driving the propelling-wheel through wormgears A carburetor and fuel-containing tank 91s mounted upon the steering-head and supplies fuel through pipes 10 to the motors- 5. The controlling, handles or valves 11 12 for regulating the carbureting action and the supply of the carbureted fuel to the motors are mounted upon the carbureter and fuel supply tank, all within convenient reach of the rider.

According to the forms illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 the motors 5 are mounted above the propelling-wheel 1 and forward of the steering-fork 2, being supported in proper relation upon brackets 13 and supplied from the car- IO-in the same manner as described with reference to Fig. 1. I

' In Fig. 2 the power is transmitted through a gear 7 to a shaft 6 and from said shaft to the propelling-wheel through a bevel-gear 14.

bnreter and fuels supply tank Qthmughpipes Y ln'Fig. 3, however, power is transmitted through bevel-gear 15 trom'the motor to a short shaft 16 and is transmitted from said shaft through a chain 17. The same .forms of controlling valves and levers 11 12 are employed in Figs. 2 and3 as in Fig. 1. of these forms, aside from simplicity of construction and special adaptation for the use of small power-motors,,each motor is shown ,located within the steering action of the ve-v vohicle of the three-wheel type in which my Figs. 2 and 3 are sid'e' elevations of one end of a vehicle,showing 'iicle. The motor swings about and changes the enveloping atmosphere about it sufii- -6ieutly ,to greatly assist in the cooling action ot 't'he explosive-motor at times when there is not snlficient relative motion between the travel of the vcnicleand the atmospheric airas, for instance, when the wind is in the same direction of travel.

All of these forms may be provided, in addition to the mechanism specifically -described, with a common type of hand-brake clutch on the steering-wheel having controlrider on the steering-handle, so that the driving connection between the motor propelling-wheel, andconsequently the speed of the vehicle may be regulated at will.

It will be observed that the carburetor and fuel-supply is built upon the steering meming mechanism and connections move with thesteering member, thus avoiding the use of joints or flexible connections.

' Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a motor driving mechanism the combination, of a propelling-wheel, and a motor peripherally disposed-with relation to said wheel, having its axis substantially parallel to the plane of the wheel, and a shaft 'by which said motor is geared to the wheel. p

2. 'In a motor driving mechanism the combination ota propelling-wheel,-and a, motor peripherally disposed with relation to the wheel, and with its axis substantially radial ling connection extending within reach of the and the In each her in such a manner that all of its regulatto the Wheel and a drivingshaft substantially bination of a propelling-wheel and a pluralparallel to the planeof the wheeland e'xtendity of motors having shafts axially parallel 2o ing to and geared to the hub of the wheel. to the plane of said wheel, symmetrically dis- 3. In a motordriving mechanism the composed with relation thereto and in balanced 5 bination of a steering :head, a propellingdriving connection therewith. wheelmonnted in said steering-head, a mo- 6. Inamotor driving mechanism, the cointor, carried by the steering-head, peripherbinationof a propelling-wheel motor having 25 ally disposed with relation to the wheel, with its driving-axis disposed in the plane of theits axis substantially radial to the wheel and. wheel, radially beyond the periphery thereofro havingdrivingconnection with the hub of the and a shaft driven by and laterally ofiset wheel. with relation to the driving-axis of the motor 4.' In amotor lriving mechanism, the comand in lateral driving connection with the 30 bination of a ropelling-wheel, and a pluralpropelling-wheel. I ity of motors symmetrically disposed radially [5 beyond the wheel and having motor-shafts HENRY JOHN axially parallel to the plane thereof andin Witnesses: driving relation therewith THOS. 'I. SHERMAN,

5. In a motor driving mechanism the com- HERVEY S. KNIGHT.

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